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Mailing Lists and Data Requests

Mailing Lists and Data Requests

Office of Data Services

Data Request Policy, revised August 2016.

Mailing Addresses and Statistical Reports

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) provides mailing lists of congregations, ministers and other professional religious leaders, congregational staff members, and elected board members of congregations, regions, and districts. Lists of individual congregation members are not available, except as described below.

Requests from parties who are not from a qualifying organization must obtain sponsorship from one of those organizations. Sponsorship must be clearly indicated on the Data Request Form, and accompanying sponsorship documentation must be included with the request.

Mailing information includes name and mailing address; email addresses of individuals are not available except as explicitly noted below. The UUA offers no guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of the data, and refunds will not be made for data that is incorrect or incomplete. Requestors are responsible for resending returned mail at their own expense.

The appropriate Data Request Form must be completed for each list or data request. Please allow a minimum of ten business days for your data request to be returned. All requests will be submitted to the UUA's Chief Operating Officer for approval.

Cost: Ten (10) cents per record (name or household) will be charged, with a minimum charge of $20 per order.

Data Requests (Statistical Reports)

Each request must be accompanied by a letter of intent and rationale explaining the use and benefit of the requested data.

If you plan to share this information with the media, we ask that you please advise the UUA’s Office of Information and Public Witness of your intent to do so.

Cost: $50 PLUS $50 per hour billed in half-hour increments.

Active Congregation History Reports are available to congregations free of charge, and must be requested by a member of the congregation's elected board and staff. They are typically distributed as a pdf attachment to an email. This report includes the congregation's statistical information collected for the UUA Directory (membership number, RE enrollment, pledging units, pledge income and total expenditures, Annual Program Fund contribution).

After the request is approved, the Office of Data Services will contact the requestor to confirm order details.

UUA Regions, Districts, seminaries, and related organizations listed as “Professional Organizations” on the UUA website are exempt from list production and service charges under the cost section for each Data Request type. If more than one request is made per calendar year, charges may apply.

Certified Candidates for president, moderator, and financial advisor may receive, electronically and free of charge, mailing lists as follows:

Mailing information for other individual congregation members is available only after securing written permission from each congregation.

In all cases, mailing information is neither verified nor guaranteed by the UUA. Send requests to data_services [at] uua [dot] org with a copy to ITdirector [at] uua [dot] org.

​Lists of individual congregation members are available only to the Regional and District Offices with which those congregations are associated, or to qualifying organizations (as described in section 2 above) that have received written permission from the congregations whose members are being requested. If Regions and Districts are subsequently notified by individuals or households that they do not wish to receive mailings in the future, the requestor shall notify the office of Data Services via email at data_services [at] uua [dot] org. Aggregating multiple removal requests into a single email would be greatly appreciated.

We provide mailing address information based on standard First-Class mailing criteria which the Post Office handles with fewer restrictions. We currently do not use Bulk mailing as the standard. We ask that requestors forward returned mail addresses to our office: Data Services/Undeliverable, 24 Farnsworth Street, Boston, MA 02210-1297.